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Meal Plans WB 26th December 2011

JulieGeorgiana
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CHRISTMAS WEEK :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:
So this week for my boys is:
Friday - Pesto Pasta :dance:
Saturday - LO Pesto Pasta :dance:
Sunday - CHRISTMAS DAY MENU :dance:
Monday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Boys were poorly so eggy pasta for them
Tuesday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Wednesday - LO Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Thursday - [STRIKE]LO Christmas Leftover Pie[/STRIKE] LO Freezer Spaghetti Bolognaise :dance:
CHRISTMAS DAY MENU
Breakfast Buffet: Fried Eggs, Bacon, Chipolatas, Black Pudding, Fried Bread, Beans, Mushrooms and Hash Browns
Dinner Buffet: Chicken Breast, Stuffing, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Roasted Potatoes, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn, Yorkshire Puddings, Mash Potatoes, Bread Sauce and Cranberry Jelly.
Dessert: Yule Log
Christmas Leftover Pie: Bacon, Chipolatas, Mushrooms, Chicken Breast, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn and Cranberry Jelly. All covered in gravy and topped with a pastry lid
Good Luck this Week Everyone! Have a GREAT Christmas x
So this week for my boys is:
Friday - Pesto Pasta :dance:
Saturday - LO Pesto Pasta :dance:
Sunday - CHRISTMAS DAY MENU :dance:
Monday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Boys were poorly so eggy pasta for them
Tuesday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Wednesday - LO Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Thursday - [STRIKE]LO Christmas Leftover Pie[/STRIKE] LO Freezer Spaghetti Bolognaise :dance:
CHRISTMAS DAY MENU
Breakfast Buffet: Fried Eggs, Bacon, Chipolatas, Black Pudding, Fried Bread, Beans, Mushrooms and Hash Browns
Dinner Buffet: Chicken Breast, Stuffing, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Roasted Potatoes, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn, Yorkshire Puddings, Mash Potatoes, Bread Sauce and Cranberry Jelly.
Dessert: Yule Log
Christmas Leftover Pie: Bacon, Chipolatas, Mushrooms, Chicken Breast, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn and Cranberry Jelly. All covered in gravy and topped with a pastry lid

Good Luck this Week Everyone! Have a GREAT Christmas x
We spend money we don't have, on things that we don't need, to impress people we don't like. I don't and I'm happy!
:dance: Mortgage Free Wannabe :dance:
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Hello all,
Starting Monday: Same tea as Christmas day - cold cuts and turkey
Tuesday: Same as Monday if not fed up with it by then
Wednesday: back to normal so *goes down stairs to fetch ongoing meal plan to use* Spag Bol
Thursday: Chuncky pasta sauce over pasta, with courgettes and broad beans mixed in, with crusty bread
Friday: Chipy chips on Fridays
Saturday: Snos and mash
Sunday: Roast Chicken
This is subject to change, depending on whether we have anything left to use up.0 -
Sunday -- Turkey dinner:j
Monday -- Roast beef dinner
Tuesday -- Left over beef & gammon with salad or chips
Wednesday -- same as above
Thursday -- Turkey stew or soup
Friday -- Chips & egg.
Saturday -- depends on son's plans.Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.0 -
Today - Creamy mustard pork chops, potatoes, broccoli and carrots
Friday - Jamie Oliver's Empire Chicken, bombay potatoes and whatever veg I can find
Saturday - not entirely sure yet - may make cooked breakfast and then a big pot of soup for everyone to help themselves to as and when and then in the evening start on nibbles! (yum, yum!)
Sunday - Full breakfast and then roast turkey and all the trimmings, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwiches
Monday - Cold turkey and bubble and squeak with chutneys etc, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwiches
Tuesday - down with family - everyone takes stuff for a buffet
Wednesday - turkey lasagned
Thursday - MY BIRTHDAY (a big one!) - so getting ready for party in the evening - loads of buffet food.
Friday - back to Turkey!!0 -
JulieGeorgiana wrote: »Thursday - LO Christmas Leftover Pie
Loving the leftover leftovers :rotfl:
Starting today: Freezer surprise, which turned out to be chicken stirfry, rice,carrots & some other random veg
Fri: One pot chicken with squash
Sat: Xmas Eve :xmassmile. Smoked salmon, glazed gammon (done in sc & bunged in oven at end)
Sun: Xmas Day :xmassign:. Pheasant & lamb, roast veg, brussels, pigs in blankets. Whole litter of them
Mon: On my own :T. Leftovers (bubble & squeak?). Pheasant soup.
Tues: Thai green curry
Weds: G&T at Luton Airport then off to Spain, dinner will be a baguette & a bottle of wine when we arrive :rotfl:A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effortMortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0 -
A pretty standard plan for me as i'm at my sister's for Christmas Day and then back to work on Boxing Day (boooo
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Monday - quesadilla with caramelised red onion, peppers and cheese (and anything else I fancy)
Tuesday - beef stew and dumplings
Wednesday - chicken supreme with rice
Thursday - homemade cheese burger with potato wedges
Friday - pasta bake
Saturday - chicken fajitas
Sunday - sausages with roasted vegetables and cous cous (note to self; check you have sausages!)
New Year's Eve may change as i'm not sure what i'm doing yet, but won't be anything too exciting as i'm working New Year's Eve and Day (double booooo!)Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
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Friday: Chilli con carne I made yesterday but with Potatoes and cheese on top
Sat: Chicken Drum Sticks with a skin on Polenta and herbs (Hm) and HM chips
Sun: At my mums
Monday: At my Mums
Tuesday: Toad in the hole with hm Chips
wednesday: pasta with Tuna and sweetcorn in Mayo
thursday:Sweetcorn Fritters with hm chips
friday: Rice with peas and sweetcorn and soy sauce
sat: Roast chicken Dinner
Sun: At my Mums
I am going to try and find out about Rubber chicken on here as I think I have read I can make the most of the Chicken for a few days afterwards. I used to just bin it.February GC £261.97/24 NSDS 10/12
march 300/290 NSD 12/6
ARPIL 300/ 238.23 NSD'S 10/30 -
skintmum2012 wrote: »I am going to try and find out about Rubber chicken on here as I think I have read I can make the most of the Chicken for a few days afterwards. I used to just bin it.
Try this thread >> Rubber Chicken
It's got all the threads linked together, so it's a big archieve.
I personally cook a 2kg Chicken and can get 4 curries from it, each feeds 6-8 adults! Which is 26 portions! Then I get stock from the carcass! Good Luck.We spend money we don't have, on things that we don't need, to impress people we don't like. I don't and I'm happy!:dance: Mortgage Free Wannabe :dance:Overpayments Made: £5400 - Interest Saved: £11,550 - Months Saved: 240 -
Thank youFebruary GC £261.97/24 NSDS 10/12
march 300/290 NSD 12/6
ARPIL 300/ 238.23 NSD'S 10/30 -
FRI: Sausages
Sat: Sausages
Sun: Sausages
Mon: Sausages
Tues: Sausages
Wed: Sausages
Thurs:Sausages
Fri: Chips0 -
Ooh, I've been a bit tardy this week. But obviously I have a house full of cooked food.
Yesterday (Monday): bubble and squeak with pigs in blankets. Plus we went to a party at someone else's house.
Today (Tuesday): cold turkey and salt beef with baked potatoes and salad cranberry sauce and bread sauce, plus making the turkey soup.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) hm gnocchi from leftover mash, sauce from leftover cheeseboard, coleslaw, plus make and freeze the turkey curry for Saturday night.
Thursday: Using up some of the salmon in the freezer; either finding a way of reusing the steaks or a fish soup or fisherman's pie or pasta.
Friday: Fantastic salt beef sandwiches I think, with hm semi-rye bread and mustard, hard cheese, and maybe some pickles if I've got any or cucumber soaked in vinegar if I don't.
Saturday: Big New Year's Eve dinner. Turkey curry, veg/bean curry as a side, rice. Some sort of sponge pudding for dessert as I have this empty pudding basin just hanging around now.
Saturday and Sunday lunches -- we'll have guests. Need more hm bread and bought bagels, but these meals are both 'eat up holiday provisions' affairs and because we got given *two* hampers I don't think there's really likely to be a shortage. Plus my friends will probably bring things.
Monday -- last bank holiday, possibly wintry leek and potato soup.
Tuesday -- still have beef in freezer for beef stew, also plenty of potatoes and carrots. Make for 8 freeze half.
Wednesday -- the other salmon meal, either salmon steaks with potatoes and peas if we didn't have them last week, or fish pasta.
Thursday -- surely there will be leftovers from all that? Leftover Roulette. If all else fails eggs on toast.
Friday 6 January -- first grocery delivery of 2012.
Lunches are soup, bread, cheese, nibbles, bits and bobs.Make £2023 in 2023: (all decluttering), current total £2860 me, £330 for friends & family, £468 charity donations.0
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